Bars over time
Net Business Openings in Canada
Business openings less closures each month, businesses with employees, seasonally adjusted
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Continuation isn't available for this series: Last observation was 144 days ago — too stale to project.
Statistics Canada, table 33-10-0270-01, experimental estimates, seasonally adjusted (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Businesses with at least one employee; an opening is a business with employees this month that had none last month, including reopenings, and a closure the reverse, including temporary ones. Not comparable with U.S. establishment births and deaths, which are annual, per location and permanent.
Above zero, more Canadian businesses started paying employees than stopped that month.
What this chart reads
- Canada Net Business Openings (Monthly)as “Openings less closures”latest 2026-06-01
Sources
Canada Net Business Openings (Monthly). Source: Palanor calculation from Statistics Canada table 33-10-0270-01 (vectors v1203704156, v1203704157, v1203704159). Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
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